Re: LONG FILE NAMES
To quote "D. Hoyem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # attempted to put them in the /mount directory, one # would go there but the other would not... both were # labeled vfat:win95 and I assume that you can not have # 2 of the same in /mount. The problem is that when I You can only mount one partition per directory. If you want to mount both under /mount, you'll need to create two directories under /mount, and mount them each individually there. # open those drives to copy something from them to # Debian they use the short file name ie comm~1.deb # instead of communicator-base-275_4.75-2.deb, it is # this way if I use gmc or open the directory and use # ls. How do I correct this? When I look at a folder # on the cdrom they are the long file nameHelp. Be sure you're mounting them with the "vfat" filesystem type. Check /etc/fstab if that's where you've put in their information. It's probably set to "fat16" or "msdos" right now. David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
Re: LONG FILE NAMES
Thanks for being the focus point I figured out this problem.. the /etc/fstab had hda1 and hdb1 listed as msdos instead of vfat. --- "D. Hoyem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have Debian installed on hdb2(swap) and hdb3(/), > hdb1 is a small vfat partation. hda is > exclusssively > vfat wind98 programs. When I did the install of > Debian > I mounted hda in /Fat-c and hdb1 in /Fat-d. I > attempted to put them in the /mount directory, one > would go there but the other would not... both were > labeled vfat:win95 and I assume that you can not > have > 2 of the same in /mount. The problem is that when I > open those drives to copy something from them to > Debian they use the short file name ie comm~1.deb > instead of communicator-base-275_4.75-2.deb, it is > this way if I use gmc or open the directory and use > ls. How do I correct this? When I look at a > folder > on the cdrom they are the long file nameHelp. > Thanks in advance > Don > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
LONG FILE NAMES
I have Debian installed on hdb2(swap) and hdb3(/), hdb1 is a small vfat partation. hda is exclusssively vfat wind98 programs. When I did the install of Debian I mounted hda in /Fat-c and hdb1 in /Fat-d. I attempted to put them in the /mount directory, one would go there but the other would not... both were labeled vfat:win95 and I assume that you can not have 2 of the same in /mount. The problem is that when I open those drives to copy something from them to Debian they use the short file name ie comm~1.deb instead of communicator-base-275_4.75-2.deb, it is this way if I use gmc or open the directory and use ls. How do I correct this? When I look at a folder on the cdrom they are the long file nameHelp. Thanks in advance Don __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: How retain Windows long file names?
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, André Bell wrote: > >How long are the names??? The Linux filesystem supports names up to 256 > >characters. Are you sure you're not first putting the files on a plain > >DOS filesystem that lacks support for long names? > > Positive. I'm running win95 and used xcopy /s to copy the files to the > floppy. I can view the files from dos and windows and the long file names > are there. When I put the floppy into my debian system debian only sees the > 8.3 filename (example: filena~1.htm). When I cp the files, 'what I see is > what I get'. > > So I took advise and zipped the files with winzip and then downloaded the > non-free unzip utility so I can unzip the files to my /var/www/oneclick > area. I'm installing the unzip deb now so hopefully that resolves the long > filename issue for now. > > >cp -r copies entire directory trees. It's in the man page. > > Yes, I read that and tried it as well as -R. Neither coppied all the > subdirectories from floppy to the harddrive. The root files copied but not > the subdirectories. I'll try again. > > Syntax I used while in /floppy was 'cp -r *.* /var/www/oneclick' > I also tried it with -R Umm... U can't use *.* (that just DOS crap). Just use * That's y he didnt take all the subdirs because no dir matched *.* Also try the commans "mdir", "mcopy" and "mdel". Very use full with floppies if u need more "DOS-look-alike" commmands ;-). > > Maybe I'm using the wrong syntax here(?) > > Give a skeptic an inch... and he'll measure it. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Re: How retain Windows long file names?
André, In Unix beware of the dot. The "cp -r *.*" will only copy directories that contain a . in the name. Use "cp -r * /dest" for best results. Also read the emails about mounting with vfat to get your long names. mk André Bell wrote: > > >How long are the names??? The Linux filesystem supports names up to 256 > >characters. Are you sure you're not first putting the files on a plain > >DOS filesystem that lacks support for long names? > > Positive. I'm running win95 and used xcopy /s to copy the files to the > floppy. I can view the files from dos and windows and the long file names > are there. When I put the floppy into my debian system debian only sees the > 8.3 filename (example: filena~1.htm). When I cp the files, 'what I see is > what I get'. > > So I took advise and zipped the files with winzip and then downloaded the > non-free unzip utility so I can unzip the files to my /var/www/oneclick > area. I'm installing the unzip deb now so hopefully that resolves the long > filename issue for now. > > >cp -r copies entire directory trees. It's in the man page. > > Yes, I read that and tried it as well as -R. Neither coppied all the > subdirectories from floppy to the harddrive. The root files copied but not > the subdirectories. I'll try again. > > Syntax I used while in /floppy was 'cp -r *.* /var/www/oneclick' > I also tried it with -R > > Maybe I'm using the wrong syntax here(?) > > Give a skeptic an inch... and he'll measure it. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: How retain Windows long file names?
>How long are the names??? The Linux filesystem supports names up to 256 >characters. Are you sure you're not first putting the files on a plain >DOS filesystem that lacks support for long names? Positive. I'm running win95 and used xcopy /s to copy the files to the floppy. I can view the files from dos and windows and the long file names are there. When I put the floppy into my debian system debian only sees the 8.3 filename (example: filena~1.htm). When I cp the files, 'what I see is what I get'. So I took advise and zipped the files with winzip and then downloaded the non-free unzip utility so I can unzip the files to my /var/www/oneclick area. I'm installing the unzip deb now so hopefully that resolves the long filename issue for now. >cp -r copies entire directory trees. It's in the man page. Yes, I read that and tried it as well as -R. Neither coppied all the subdirectories from floppy to the harddrive. The root files copied but not the subdirectories. I'll try again. Syntax I used while in /floppy was 'cp -r *.* /var/www/oneclick' I also tried it with -R Maybe I'm using the wrong syntax here(?) Give a skeptic an inch... and he'll measure it.
Re: How retain Windows long file names?
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Re: How retain Windows long file names?
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, [iso-8859-1] Andr? Bell wrote: > When I 'xcopy *.* a:\ /s" and then copy those files to my linux machine > with 'cp' my long files names are lost. Any idea how to retain these long You need to mount the floppy disk with filesystem type vfat, instead of filesystem type msdos. And Windows, of course, needs to write the long filenames to the disk. It doesn't always with floppy. > Maybe there's some other way to achieve the same results besides the > 'cp' command if cp does not support long file names and if it can't > copy entire subdirectories(?). You can put the files in an archive with WinZip and unpack them on Linux with 'unzip'. Saves space that way too. Winzip can make tar files, I think, also.
Re: How retain Windows long file names?
On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 10:48:54AM -0700, André Bell wrote: > When I 'xcopy *.* a:\ /s" and then copy those files to my linux machine > with 'cp' my long files names are lost. Any idea how to retain these long > file names when using media instead of ftp to transfer files between systems? Are you mounting the media as `-t msdos' or `-t vfat'? The long file names should be retained in the latter case, but definately won't in the former. > Also, is there an equivalent command to copy the files to linux including > full paths? The above mentioned diskette has around 500 cgi and html files > in 50 subdirectories and I'd like to be able to copy them to linux within > their respective paths without having to manually enter all 50 > subdirectories and manually copy the files over, one subdirectory at a time. Do a `man cp', and look for the `-r' option.
How retain Windows long file names?
When I 'xcopy *.* a:\ /s" and then copy those files to my linux machine with 'cp' my long files names are lost. Any idea how to retain these long file names when using media instead of ftp to transfer files between systems? Also, is there an equivalent command to copy the files to linux including full paths? The above mentioned diskette has around 500 cgi and html files in 50 subdirectories and I'd like to be able to copy them to linux within their respective paths without having to manually enter all 50 subdirectories and manually copy the files over, one subdirectory at a time. Maybe there's some other way to achieve the same results besides the 'cp' command if cp does not support long file names and if it can't copy entire subdirectories(?). I'm reading man cp right now to see if the above can be accomplished but since man cp is no longer being maintained it seems best to ask here as well, for updated info. Thanks Give a skeptic an inch... and he'll measure it.
Re: Long file names
You will need to mount it with '-t vfat' which let's you read the windows 95 long file names. This is assuming you have the vfat module for the kernel already installed. hope that helps On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 08:26:06AM -0500, Jeff Miller wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question that I am sure has been asked before, but... > > When I mount my Win98 drive from Linux, the file names are shrunk. What do I > have to do to see the whole name? > > Thanks in advance! -- Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UnixGroup Admin - Jordan Systems Inc. - CSC
Re: Long file names
>Hello, > >I have a question that I am sure has been asked before, but... > >When I mount my Win98 drive from Linux, the file names are shrunk. What do I have to do to see the whole name? > >Thanks in advance! > > You have to mount the drive with: mount -t vfat This works pretty well for me, but you have to have vfat module loaded. Cheers
Re: Long file names
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Jeff Miller wrote: : Hello, : : I have a question that I am sure has been asked before, but... : : When I mount my Win98 drive from Linux, the file names are shrunk. What do I have to do to see the whole name? mount -t vfat /dev/hda4 /mnt (use the appropriate device file, of course). -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
Re: Long file names
> When I mount my Win98 drive from Linux, the file names are shrunk. What do I > have to do to see the whole name? > Mount the filesystem as type "vfat" instead of "msdos". It is more than a msdos filesystem. Vfat get the long names right. Helge Hafting
Long file names
Hello, I have a question that I am sure has been asked before, but... When I mount my Win98 drive from Linux, the file names are shrunk. What do I have to do to see the whole name? Thanks in advance!
Re: Vfat & Long file names
On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 03:31:37AM -0500, Cristov Russell wrote:
> I have edited /etc/fstab and mounted my Win95 partitions as vfat.
> When I boot into Linux I get a message saying:
>
> Unable to load NLS charset cp437...
> Unable to load NLS charset ISO8859...
>
> I can view files in these partitions so I know that the partitions are
> mounted but I'm unsure what the error means.
With recent kernel versions, proper VFAT support requires that you have the
right National Language Support code/modules available; they allow Linux to
properly deal with filenames containing non-ascii characters. (By e.g.
translating from DOS codepage 850 to ISO 8859-1 ("latin 1")).
> My other question is about long file names. How does Linux handle long
> file names? When I try to view a file with spaces (i.e. My Resume.txt)
> Linux seems to treat these as seperate files. How do I correctly specify
> a valid long file name?
Put quotes around it, or use backslashes to quote, e.g.:
cat '/win/File name with spaces in it'
vim /win/My\ Documents/foo
HTH,
Ray
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Vfat & Long file names
I have edited /etc/fstab and mounted my Win95 partitions as vfat. When I boot into Linux I get a message saying: Unable to load NLS charset cp437... Unable to load NLS charset ISO8859... I can view files in these partitions so I know that the partitions are mounted but I'm unsure what the error means. My other question is about long file names. How does Linux handle long file names? When I try to view a file with spaces (i.e. My Resume.txt) Linux seems to treat these as seperate files. How do I correctly specify a valid long file name? TIA Cristov Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
